Reply to trouble finding gig / contractor roles while a DC resident

Forum Index » Jobs and Careers

Reply to "trouble finding gig / contractor roles while a DC resident"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been applying for gig / contractor jobs left & right, and getting absolutely no response. I finally got through to a recruiting team directly last week and was told that DC has "tax and labor regulations that impact many corporations' hiring policies" and that many corporations simply cannot meet the requirements.

I suppose it makes me feel a bit better, as in it is not necessarily *me*, per se, that is a horrid candidate but ... still isn't great.

Anyone else encounter this?
[/quote]

absolute BS.  I am assuming you mean contractors based in MD or VA?

DC residents have been working for private employers forever.  Also, dc has a tax treaty with DC and MD whereby the employee is taxed in the district of residence, not in the district where they work.  So if you live in DC and work for a MD employer you pay DC tax and file in DC only.

any "labor regulations" that DC has that the other state does not have would not apply.  labor regulations regulate the employer, so a DC employee who works for a MD company (which has no offices in DC) would not be subject to DC employment law.  [/quote]

They would be subject to DC law if that employee is working from home.

At my company, our insurance costs went up when we hired a WFH employee based in NJ. They have higher requirements for some stuff than VA I guess.[/quote]

okay, so the insurance company is worried.  Maybe that is the sole reason OP is not getting hired.

but I don't think the Courts have decided that issue yet.  As far as I know, an employee who works outside of the district from home could raise DC claims against a DC based employer, but as to the issue of whether a DC based WFH employee working for an out of state employer (who has no other offices in DC) could raise DC law based claims against the out of state employer, I don't think the courts have decided that.  So maybe OP's company just doesn't want to take the risk.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics